Debian-lenny

Install Debian Lenny from the Gentoo LiveCD

Warning: This script will WIPE your Xbox 360 harddisk (/dev/sda) and install Debian Lenny

lennyinstall.sh will create two partitions. 1 GB swap on sda1 and the rest of the disk as a root-filesystem on sda2. Run the script as root from the Gentoo LiveCD v2. You will need a DHCP-server on your network for this script.

How do I run it?

Click "Application > Accessories > Terminal" and type the following commands:

 sudo su
 wget http://home.comcast.net/~ssmurf/lennyinstall.sh
 sh ./lennyinstall.sh

Reboot the 360 when you are told. Boot with http://home.comcast.net/~ssmurf/XeLL-Bootloader-sda2-v2.6.24.3.tar.gz and login as root. You will be asked for a new password. The rest of the installation will start automatically. The download is about 600Mb. Select xenosfb when the script asks for Xserver-driver.

Note: Currently unstable, resulted in xorg crashing and there is no network activity. Debian Etch works, same with Ubuntu 7.10.
lennyinstall.sh

   #!/bin/bash
   # set the date to anything except 1/1/1970 since this causes issues
   # time is now also set after first boot by .bashrc script below
   date -s 1/1/2009
   dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=512 count=1
   sfdisk /dev/sda << EOF
   ,124,S
   ,,L
   EOF
   mkfs.ext3 /dev/sda2
   mkswap /dev/sda1
   sync; sync; sync
   swapon /dev/sda1
   mkdir /mnt/debian
   mount /dev/sda2 /mnt/debian
   cd /mnt/debian
   mkdir /mnt/debian/work
   cd /mnt/debian/work
   wget http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/d/debootstrap/debootstrap_1.0.23_all.deb
   ar -xf debootstrap_1.0.23_all.deb
   cd /mnt/debian
   zcat < /mnt/debian/work/data.tar.gz | tar xv
   cp /mnt/debian/usr/sbin/debootstrap /mnt/debian/usr/share/debootstrap     
   export DEBOOTSTRAP_DIR=/mnt/debian/usr/share/debootstrap
   export PATH=$PATH:/mnt/debian/usr/share/debootstrap
   debootstrap --arch powerpc lenny /mnt/debian ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/
   echo Xenon > /mnt/debian/etc/hostname
   cat > /mnt/debian/etc/fstab << EOF
   /dev/sda2     /          ext3     defaults   0   0
   /dev/sda1     none    swap    sw           0   0
   proc            /proc    proc    defaults  0   0
   EOF
   cat > /mnt/debian/etc/network/interfaces << EOF
   iface lo inet loopback
   auto lo
   auto eth0
   iface eth0 inet dhcp
   EOF
   cat > /mnt/debian/etc/apt/sources.list << EOF
   deb ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free
   EOF
   cp /mnt/debian/root/.bashrc /mnt/debian/root/.bashrc.orginal
   cat >> /mnt/debian/root/.bashrc << EOF
   passwd
   apt-get update
   apt-get install ntp wget -y --force-yes
   apt-get install x-window-system -y --force-yes
   aptitude install gnome -y
   apt-get install build-essential firefox gftp khexedit console-tools -y --force-yes
   cd /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/
   rm -r -f *
   wget http://lilstevie.com/assets/xbox360/xenosfb_drv.so
   cd /etc/X11/
   rm -r -f xorg.conf
   wget http://home.comcast.net/~ssmurf/xorg.conf
   mkdir /lib/modules/2.6.21.1
   touch /lib/modules/2.6.21.1/modules.dep
   echo "" > /etc/gdm/gdm.conf-custom
   sed -i '/security/ a\AllowRoot=true' /etc/gdm/gdm.conf
   sed -i 's/#LEDS=+num/LEDS=+num/' /etc/console-tools/config
   rm /root/.bashrc
   mv /root/.bashrc.orginal /root/.bashrc
   /etc/init.d/gdm start
   EOF
   echo "Base System Install Complete!"
   echo "You may now shutdown the xbox360."
   echo "Then continue the install by booting the Xell-Bootloader-sda2."